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structure of qaṣīdah

...most famously by the 9th-century writer Ibn Qutaybah—analyzed such long poems within a tripartite structure. In an opening section, called the
naṣīb, the poem’s speaker comes across a deserted encampment and muses nostalgically about times past and especially about his absent beloved. Via a transition, a second...

The
qaṣīdah opens with a short prelude, the
nasib, which is elegiac in mood and is intended to gain the audience’s involvement. The
nasib depicts the poet stopping at an old tribal encampment to reminisce about the happiness he shared there with his beloved and...